| 520 | Friday, April 3, 2009 |
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| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM | Tampa Convention Center:1-2 |
| AAPAR/Council for Aquatic Professionals |
| Training Minority Lifeguards through PE in High Needs Schools |
| This session explains how a university-school-CBO collaborative brought a renewed aquatics/life skills program to a high-needs high school. Focusing on the need to provide student success, relevant curriculum, and positive long-term relationships to improve physical education in under-served high schools (Ennis, 2006), university faculty negotiated with the American Red Cross and with the US Olympic Committee to provide funding and swim instruction into a physical education program. |
Keyword(s): aquatics, physical education PK-12, youth-at-risk
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| Speakers: Sarah Doolittle, Jenine DeMarzo and Angela K. Beale, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY |